Cigarette-making device and holder.



P. S. MELEDONIAN (St L. SUIVIPADIAN.

CIGARETTE MAKING DEVICE AND HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 16,1915.

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GIQ'ARETTE-MAKING' DEVICE AND HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 210', jlWltl'.

Application filed. August 16, 1915. Serial No. 45,612.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PETER S. MELEDO- NIAN, a citizen of the United States of America,-and LEON SUMPADIAN, an Armenian, a subject of the Sultan of Turkey, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette-Making Devices and Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. v i

This invention relates to a combined cigarette making vdevice and holder, and the primary object of our invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device which willfacilitate the rolling or making of a cigarette, particularly from granular tobacco.

Another object of our invention is to provide a cigarette making device which can be utilized as a mouth piece for a cigarette or cigar.

We attain the above and other objects by a mechanical construction that will be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed. 9 v

Reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein Figure 1 s a longitudinal sectional view of the combined cigarette making device and holder; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device, showing a. cigar ette paper rolled thereon.

A preferred form of device is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and this device comprises a tube 1 having a bowl 2 at one end thereof. v

The-innerwalls of the bowl 2 are roughened or serrated, as at ,3, whereby the walls'of said-molds may frictionally engage the end of a cigar when the bowl 2 is used as a cigar holder. The bottom of the bowl has a cylindrical portion 4: establishing communication between the bore of the .tube 1 and the bowl proper, said cylindrical portion constituting a holder for a cigarette when the device is utilized as a mouth piece.

A cigarette paper 5 can be rolled upon the tube 1 and sealed thereon, as shown in Fig. 2. The bowl 2 of the device can then be filled with granular tobacco, and with the device ino'an upright position, the formed cigarette paper can be slipped off of the lower end of the tube 1 and during such movement filled with granular tobacco which passes through the tube. To prevent waste of granular tobacco, it is preferable Y to shift the formed cigarette paper below the lower end of the tube 1 and then crimp or fold in the lower edges of the cigarette paper, whereby granular tobacco cannot freely pass through the paper form. As the granular tobacco enters the paper form, a suitable tamping instrument, as a small rod or thin pencil may be inserted in the bowl and tube to pack granular tobacco in the paper form. The tube 1 is slightly longer than an ordinary cigarette paper and of such length as to hold enough granular tobacco to fill a paper form.

The device can be made of bakelite, celluloid, metal or any desired material and when not used for making a cigarette it can be r used as a cigarette or cigar mouth piece.

What we claim is i A combined cigarette making device and holder comprising a tube adapted to havea cigarette paper rolled thereon and shifted from the end thereof to receive the contents of said tube, and a bowl at one end of said tube, said bowlhaving inner roughened walls adapted for frictionally engaging the end of a cigar, and an inner cylindrical portion in communication with said tube adapted to receive the end of a cigarette. In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

PETER s. MELEDONIAN. j eon sUMraniAN.

Witnesses:

Lnwrs E. F ANnnRs, i

H. BUTLER. 

